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Mar 29, 2008 | 12:54 pm

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dinosims

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Originally Posted by sbm12

This routing leaves you pretty far north, and then you're stuck taking the Thruway around the long way to SYR or going via Rte. 17, which is not an interstate and will slow things down. Either of those options will add an hour or two onto the drive time.

I drive NYC to ITH every now and then, and the drive isn't bad, but I'd hate doing it after flying a transcon.

Rt. 17 isn't officially an interstate, but it's still a 2 or 3 lane highway with speed limits of 65, and is currently being updated to interstate standards to become I-86. This is the routing I take when I drive up to ROC (GWB to Palisades to Rt. 6 to Rt 17 to I-81) and seems to be much less variability with traffic than I-80 would be.

And yes - leaving JFK at 6ish on a Friday night is just asking for trouble, and sbm12 is right to add another hour or so onto the google driving times for this.

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